THE PROBLEM

Communicating data electrically out of server and network chips is unsustainable. Physics limits bandwidth, which will strangle current data center designs.That’s where photonics come in…

PHOTONS are the best choice for fast communications, especially at high-data transfer rates and over distance. Our intimately-integrated electronic and photonic chips will enable data communication links with breakthrough density and power efficiency.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

Communicating data electrically out of server and network chips is unsustainable. Physics limits bandwidth, which will strangle current data center designs.That’s where photonics come in…

PHOTONS are the best choice for fast communications, especially at high-data transfer rates and over distance. Our intimately-integrated electronic and photonic chips will enable data communication links with breakthrough density and power efficiency.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

Photonics unlocks modern data centers – making them faster, denser, more energy efficient, and lower-cost.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

FASTER

Electrical channels have frequency-dependent loss and skin-effect related loss, that throttles bandwidth and suppresses data rates – even in small hops – like from a chip to the edge of the board.

FASTER

Electrical channels have frequency-dependent loss and skin-effect related loss, that throttles bandwidth and suppresses data rates – even in small hops – like from a chip to the edge of the board.

INTEGRATED

SPACE EFFICIENT

A large portion of data-center footprint goes to modules whose sole purpose is to convert data from electrical domain to optical domain. Axalume’s technology reduces and, in some cases, entirely eliminates these modules and chipsets.

SPACE EFFICIENT

A large portion of data-center footprint goes to modules whose sole purpose is to convert data from electrical domain to optical domain. Axalume’s technology reduces and, in some cases, entirely eliminates these modules and chipsets.

ENERGY EFFICIENT

And while we’re at it, we are saving energy as well. How much energy? About 70%. Most of the power in an optical link is wasted getting the data to optical modules at the beginning and end of the link. Axalume eliminates this waste, by intimate co-integration of photonics with the chips.

ENERGY EFFICIENT

And while we’re at it, we are saving energy as well. How much energy? About 70%. Most of the power in an optical link is wasted getting the data to optical modules at the beginning and end of the link. Axalume eliminates this waste, by intimate co-integration of photonics with the chips.

LOWER COST

Using silicon for photonic integration is the key to sustaining bandwidth growth and reducing cost per bit. Axalume enables lower costs at higher speeds through more closely integrated optics and electronics and by eliminating redundant electrical/optical conversion steps.

LOWER COST

Using silicon for photonic integration is the key to sustaining bandwidth growth and reducing cost per bit. Axalume enables lower costs at higher speeds through more closely integrated optics and electronics and by eliminating redundant electrical/optical conversion steps.